"Lord Ainos? Please come in. Sean looked at him in surprise. He was a little surprised that this old fellow was actually the person sent by Earl Ian Hobbes in the letter.

Since that Ice Festival, he has also met with Ainos many times, but the other party does not seem to have much interest in the situation in Hogg City, and the topics of conversation with him are basically alchemy.

I just don't know what happened this time, so that Count Hobbes even invited Enos.

……

"Actually, it's not a big problem, it's just a small trouble." Enos walked into the room and briefly explained what had happened in Sean's puzzled eyes.

"You should know about the mining area outside the city where Earl Hobbes is, right? It's the largest one near Hogle. ”

"Some time ago, dozens of miners who went to the depths of the mine to explore disappeared in one go, and the apprentice-level professionals stationed in the mining area thought that the monsters in the mine were haunting, so they took a few of their subordinates to go into the mine without authorization to try to solve the problem."

"It's a pity that the guy didn't come back for several days, and I don't know if he died or what, in short, after the news spread, those miners almost didn't dare to go down the mine anymore, and they have been stopped until now."

"Ian's face in Hoggle City is still not small, and his personality is very cautious, so he invited many apprentice-level professionals to check it out in one go, including me." Enos shrugged his shoulders and looked helpless.

"If it weren't for him doing me a big favor not long ago, I wouldn't be too lazy to go, and if I want to say that this is not a big problem, basically five or six people can solve it, and there is no need to make such a big move." Sean nodded slightly.

This kind of monster attack happens from time to time, but because there are often caravans or adventurers coming and going near the town, the level of monsters that can survive is usually not too high under the wave of clearance.

However, he still had some doubts in his heart, normally in order to ensure the safety of the operation, the mining area should be arranged with large-scale expulsion ritual magic around it, why would there be monsters with discomfort?

He asked the question, but Ainos suddenly laughed when he heard it.

"Sean, you're right, it should be under normal circumstances."

"But have you ever thought that in the eyes of those nobles who value money as their lives, the lives of miners are not very valuable?"

"Instead of spending so many gold coins to invite someone to arrange ritual magic, it is better to wait until something happens to the miners who are exploring, and then send someone down to deal with the monsters, so that not only will the cost be less, but if you are lucky, you can also harvest some expensive monster corpses, killing two birds with one stone." Ainos explained, seemingly ignoring the lives of the miners.

"I see." Sean muttered thoughtfully. In the eyes of most professionals and aristocrats, ordinary people are just consumables that regenerate slowly, although they are not usually too squeezed, but that is just an attitude similar to maintenance tools.

When it is really necessary, they can give up the lives of ordinary people without hesitation, so as to get more benefits.

"So, Earl Ian hasn't figured out why those people disappeared yet?" Soon, Sean changed the subject.

The strength of the apprentice-level professional guarding the mining area is not weak, and the monster attack on the opposite side is also apprentice-level strength, even if he can't beat it, he should be able to escape, how can he not come back?

"There are many possibilities, such as more than one apprentice-level monster in the depths of the mine, or being attacked in the process of searching."

"After all, the environment in the mine is so complicated, that guy may die before he can use his abilities."

"Of course not, it's possible that you got lost in the process of chasing or being hunted down." Ainos said jokingly.

It's unlikely. Even if the profession who goes deep into the mine is not a mage, other professions have more or less pathfinding abilities, and they will never be trapped underground for a few days and unable to get out.

"Don't worry, that guy Ian is not ordinarily cautious, this time there are at least twenty or more apprentice-level professionals acting together, no matter what kind of monster it is, in the end, it will only be dismantled into materials."

"If you're lucky, you might be able to get some monster cubs, and even if you can't use them yourself, you can sell them for a lot of gold." Ainos took a sip of tea and said very calmly.

"Well, that's true." Sean's mood suddenly became happy, it seems that this event is quite safe, even if there are not many things, it is not bad to see this kind of big scene.

………… After chatting a little more about alchemy, Ainos said goodbye to Sean. Earl Ian Hobbs had set a time in two days, and Sean needed to make some preparations before that.

"Go to the basement and grab a slave and send it to my lab." After thinking about it carefully, Sean instructed Celia who was standing aside.

He wasn't a good mage, and he was naturally familiar with buying slaves as test subjects.

The slave market had cheap slaves, so he opened a basement to keep them in order to have them ready to use when needed.

"Yes, master." Celia owes a debt and takes the two maids and walks towards the basement. Although they were both slaves, Celia had no sympathy or anything like that, because she had already given everything she had to her master.

In her opinion, it was a great honor for those slaves to be able to become test subjects for their masters, and to be able to contribute to the greater strength of their masters.

If the master needs it, Celia can also send herself to the test bench at any time, which is her absolute loyalty to the master.

However, this kind of thing does not happen, and from Sean's point of view, Celia has a more important use, and if she were treated as an ordinary slave, it would be a bit of a tyrannical thing.

…… Soon after, a numb-eyed slave walked into Sean's laboratory under the watchful eyes of Celia and the others.

As the door to the laboratory closed, Sean also cleared the distractions in his mind, and he cast his calm gaze on the cabinet in front of him and carefully selected it.

The cabinet was as high as a wall, and it was filled with all kinds of expensive potions, all of which were the result of Sean's years of life.

"Well, apprentice-grade bloody potion type II type 4, this hasn't been measured yet, let's try it......"